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Oaxaca 2018
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Chicken mole
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Camarones al ajo de mojo, or shrimp in garlic sauce.
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Day of the Dead scene carved from radishes. This one wasn't even as impressive as some of the others, which is why I was able to get a clear shot of it.
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The first course of our Christmas dinner, a tomato and cheese soup with avocado. Really tasty with a slight tang.
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Christmas main course: turkey, spaghetti (I know, I was surprised too) salad with strawberries.
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Christmas dessert, banana bread with raisins and walnuts, rice pudding and fruit with yogurt.
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Santo Domingo church. Used to be a monastery, now it's a very nice museum.
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The landscape of Oaxaca, looking North from the second floor of Santo Domingo.
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Another shot of Santo Domingo and plaza in front of it.
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Enmolatas, which are enchiladas with mole sauce. Mole was invented in Oaxaca, and is a big specialty here.
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Tlayudas. Looks like a quesadilla, but it's got back beans as well as cheese, meat and veggies. Also, they are usually served open face instead of folded in half.
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Chicken coloradito with rice. This is another type of mole.
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Rib meat tacos with roasted onion on the side... So good!
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Horchata (in Mexico, this means rice milk with cinnamon. Apparently it's from the Mediterranean and there are many different kinds). This version was especially good, it had cantaloupe and bits of walnut.
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Mexican hot chocolate, served with a sweet bread roll.
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Chicken mole tamal. I know it doesn't look appetizing, but it was delicious, I promise!
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Tlayuda with chorize, marinated pork and carne asada.
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Making fresh Mexican chocolate, used to make hot chocolate.
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Shops in Teotitlan, a very cute village outside Oaxaca city.
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Working the loom
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Wedding processing outside Santo Domingo church.
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Wedding procession!
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Frying gorditas. The light is bad because the place is under an orange tarp!
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Gordita with manchego cheese and carnitas, very crunchy and tasty.
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Tamarind with sweet sauce and chili pepper.
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A small part of the massive market in Tlacolula. This is a fairly small town, but the market is like a mall, they sell everything from food to clothes to housewares.
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Barbacoa taco, simple and delicious.
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Spices for the mole amarillo we made in a cooking class
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Sauteing spices
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Grinding our mole at the local molina. For a small fee, they will grind your coffee, cacao, grains, or in our case, mole.
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Lots of really cool street art right outside the place were we took a cooking class.
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Mole amarillo and potato cream soup simmering. Amorillo means yellow, but then why is it red? Apparently it was originally made with a yellow pepper, but now most people make it with other peppers, which are red.
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Garlic and onion going into the soup.
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The finished mole amarillo with chicken, rice and potatoes.
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Dessert! Pear and passion fruit with a custard in the middle.
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Our local taco joint had the best salsas.
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Can't remember what this dish is called. Interestingly it's not fajitas, in fact we have discovered that fajitas are very regional, and mostly found in the north of Mexico.
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Hierve el Agua, the "petrified" waterfall. Really it's mineral deposits from the geothermal water coming out of the ground nearby.
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Close up of the side of a natural pool.
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The water was cold when we were there, but our guide said sometimes it's warm from geothermal activity.
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The pool at the top of the big waterfall.
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Looking up at the waterfall.
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One of the natural channels the water has formed. So pretty!
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Different types of agave that can be used to make mezcal.
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Tasting the many types of mezcal.
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More barbacoa tacos.
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Locally made turkey sausage, garlic mashed potatoes, mustard, aoli and fresh bread.
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A memela, fresh masa corn tortilla, black beans and queso fresco.
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The ancient city of Monte Albán, capitol of the Zapotec civilization.
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A Kapok tree, it produces fibers similar to cotton. It's covered in thorns though, so good luck to whoever wants to try and harvest it!
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Soup with barbacoa, liver, kidney and blood.
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El Árbol del Tule, the widest tree in the world! Zapotec legend is that it was planted 1,400 years ago by a Zapotec priest.
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El Árbol del Tule overshadows the little church that was built next to it.